Assessment Post 1 - John Hattie

According to Hattie, the influences on a child's education differ greatly in importance. The students themselves contribute 50% to their education, the teachers 25% and the remaining 25% is influenced by their home, school and peers. Hattie believes the 6 biggest motivations for a student to learn are:

• feedback
• prior cognitive ability (such as IQ score)
• instructional quality
• instructional quantity (how much and how long they are taught)
• direct instruction (interaction in classroom learning)
• acceleration.

http://www.acer.edu.au/workshops/documents/HattieSlides.pdf
http://www.teacherstoolbox.co.uk/downloads/managers/GeoffonHattie.doc

John Hatties ideas are important for teachers to study and understand as it gives an insight into what effect outside influences can have on how much students learn and thus how to affect their potential grades for the better. Feedback is obviously an important point as the child learns what mistakes they have made and where their strengths and weaknesses are. It is interesting though that this is above instructional quality as many people believe the abilities of the teacher to be the most important thing.